For many of us, Halloween is a time for making the most minimal effort possible to find a costume and proceed to get drunk in it. For celebrities, however, it’s a chance to be photographed, to feel validated, to bask in the attention of the little people.

…And the quickest, easiest way to do so involves a garter belt (or a nipple pasty). Here are 25 (deeply ridiculous) celebrity sexy Halloween costumes. More »

In what is usually an unapologetic gambit for pop culture relevance, a famous female celebrity has posed in her underwear for a ladmag. While we have no objection to posing in underwear (ladmags are another story), we’re not going to pretend it’s a career decision that hinges on celebrating one’s body, taking control of one’s sexuality or just having a great underwear time in front of strange people with cameras. It does, however, have a lot to do with generating blog posts exactly like this one. More »

Yesterday, we brought you our picks for the finest red carpet looks of the year, featuring the usual paragons of good taste–Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Naomi Watts, etc. Today, we bring you the opposites, the looks we remember this year because they were ill-fitting, unflattering, color clashing, over-the-top and just plain ugly.

The 2012 American Music Awards, otherwise known as the AMAs, were held last night and… if an awards show takes place in a vaccum and nobody’s around to witness it, did it really happen? We don’t know. But attendees sure as hell tried to make us remember the red carpet.

Jessica Simpson never met a talking point she couldn’t work. How else could such an unremarkable musician–originally packaged as a “more vanilla” Christina Aguilera–manage to last this long? She hasn’t released a single in four years, the most meaningful work she’s done since “A Public Affair” is knock off designers and exploit her weight fluctuations for tabloid attention. So, you’re a middling celebrity and you’ve already used your offspring to get a magazine cover? What to do? More »

Whoa, Christina Aguilera. Here’s The Voice‘s resident female rising naked from a glowing lotus flower–palms up and serene, per Jesus–looking like a cross between Kim Kardashian and Tracy Anderson, or how someone would paint such a thing. More »